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4872. LOUIS XVI., Execution.—

We
have just received the news of the decapitation
of the King of France. Should the present foment
in Europe not produce republics everywhere,
it will at least soften the monarchical
governments by rendering monarchs amenable to
punishment like other criminals, and doing away
that rage of insolence and oppression, the inviolability
of the King's person.—
To——. Washington ed. iii, 527.
(Pa., March. 1793)